North Carolina Tar Heels NCAA Basketball News

Marlon Bright was surprised. He shouldn't have been. Sure, Isiah Thomas is 48 years old, old enough that contemporary hip-hop might seem an unlikely source for his motivational messages.

North Carolina tailback Shaun Draughn fractured his left shoulder blade in the team's game against Duke and will miss the rest of the season.

Thomas was midway through a question-and-answer session with some FIU alumni last month when someone stood up and put the Hall of Fame player on the spot.

Ryan Houston ran for a career-high 164 yards and Jheranie Boyd scored the clinching touchdown midway through the fourth quarter to help North Carolina beat Duke 19-6 on Saturday.

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These days, North Carolina is enjoying an edge on Duke in the long-running, back-and-forth race between college basketball's fiercest rivals.

North Carolina played the unfamiliar role of No. 3 seed as the 2009 ACC Championship concluded quarterfinal play Wednesday night at WakeMed Soccer Park.

One of the hardest lists to determine is a "Top 10" college basketball coaching list.

The University of North Carolina volleyball team is 11-12 overall and 7-5 in league play entering the month of November.

East Carolina is running out of chances to knock off the big boys on its schedule.

North Carolina is still struggling to figure out what kind of team it is heading into the final month of the season.

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Sophomore Alex Dixon recorded North Carolina's first hat trick since 2005 to highlight a 7-0 win for the No.

While the Heels are high on the preseason poll, Connecticut picked up right where it left off last season: unanimous No.

Frank Beamer might as well have said "told you so." The Virginia Tech coach preached all week that North Carolina was a better team than its record suggested, and the No.

Casey Barth kicked a 21-yard field goal on the final play and North Carolina stopped No.

For the second time in its storied basketball history, Kansas is No. 1 in The Associated Press' preseason Top 25.

The University of North Carolina volleyball team is 11-10 overall and 7-3 in league play in the midst of the conference season.

Click on any of the images below to launch a full gallery: 1 of 17 Ed Davis , Deon Thompson, John Henson, Tyler Zeller, David Wear, Travis Wear Davis, a lanky 6-foot-10 sophomore, actually had better offensive and defensive rebounding percentages than Tyler Hansbrough last season -- but Davis' raw numbers were deflated because he only played 18.8 ...

No. 3 North Carolina will host Stetson at 7 p.m. Wednesday in its regular season home finale at Fetzer Field.